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Fedora 40 Security Advisory: 2024-053b8330a1 Critical Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A critical security advisory for Fedora 40 has been issued due to multiple Ghostscript vulnerabilities requiring immediate updates to avoid risks
Security fix for CVE-2024-33869 Security fixes for CVE-2024-29509, CVE-2024-29508, CVE-2024-29507, CVE-2024-29506

Summary

This package provides useful conversion utilities based on Ghostscript software,

for converting PS, PDF and other document formats between each other.

Ghostscript is a suite of software providing an interpreter for Adobe Systems'

PostScript (PS) and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.

Its primary purpose includes displaying (rasterization & rendering) and printing

of document pages, as well as conversions between different document formats.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2024-33869 Security fixes for CVE-2024-29509, CVE-2024-29508, CVE-2024-29507, CVE-2024-29506

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical Fedora command execution ghostscript update information

Change Log

* Wed Jul 17 2024 Zdenek Dohnal - 10.02.1-12 - 2296285 - CVE-2024-33869 ghostscript: path traversal and command execution due to path reduction * Tue Jul 16 2024 Zdenek Dohnal - 10.02.1-11 - 2295704 - CVE-2024-29509 ghostscript: heap buffer overflow via the PDFPassword parameter - 2295703 - CVE-2024-29508 ghostscript: heap pointer leak in pdf_base_font_alloc() - 2295700 - CVE-2024-29507 ghostscript: stack-based buffer overflow via the CIDFSubstPath and CIDFSubstFont parameters - 2295697 - CVE-2024-29506 ghostscript: stack-based buffer overflow in the pdfi_apply_filter()

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2293958 - CVE-2024-33869 ghostscript: path traversal and command execution due to path reduction https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293958 [ 2 ] Bug #2295626 - CVE-2024-29506 ghostscript: stack-based buffer overflow in the pdfi_apply_filter() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295626 [ 3 ] Bug #2295627 - CVE-2024-29508 ghostscript: heap pointer leak in pdf_base_font_alloc() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295627 [ 4 ] Bug #2295628 - CVE-2024-29509 ghostscript: heap buffer overflow via the PDFPassword parameter https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295628 [ 5 ] Bug #2295647 - CVE-2024-29507 ghostscript: stack-based buffer overflow via the CIDFSubstPath and CIDFSubstFont parameters https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295647

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-053b8330a1' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: ghostscript
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 10.02.1
Release: 12.fc40
URL: https://ghostscript.com/
Summary: Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical Fedora command execution ghostscript update information

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